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Manchester Utd 1-1 Fulham (3 – 4 on penalties): FA Cup 6th Round

This was not a classic encounter in the great traditions of Manchester Utd v Fulham games but gosh it was exciting. The game went first to extra time, then penalties and Fulham emerged winners. Although Manchester Utd and their decline was the story, I thought Fulham deserved their win as they had [...]

March 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Wolves 1 Fulham 2

Head cosch Marco Silva made wholesale changes after the Crystal Palace win last Saturday. Out went Calvin Bassey, Alex Iwobi, Raul Jimenez and Antonee Robinson – all relegated to the bench – whilst Issa Diop and Jorge Cuenca came into a back five and Rodrigo Muniz started up front. In [...]

February 26, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 0 Crystal Palace 2

Once again Fulham followed a superb win – over high-flying Nottingham Forest – with a home defeat to a team below us. Palace got off to a bad start this season and Fulham were easy victors at Selhurst Park in the autumn. Since then they have rallied, garnering 27 points and winning [...]

February 23, 2025 // 0 Comments

Does Sir Jim Ratcliffe get a fair press?

Our sporting press like nothing better than to criticise. Two weeks ago, in rugby’s Six Nations tournament, England were predicted to lose to France and head coach Steve Borthwick was under the cosh. England then proved the critics wrong. Underlying this critique is the patronising assumption [...]

February 22, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Boys Book of Soccer (1957)

At a garden fête last year I bought the above slightly fixed volume and interesting reading it made too. Of most interest were the league tables for 1955/56. In those days you  had a Third Division – north and south – from which only one team was promoted. Brighton, Ipswich Town, [...]

February 21, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Fulham 2 Nottingham Forest 1

We maintained the form that achieved a draw at Liverpool and wins at Chelsea and Newcastle with a well-deserved victory over Forest who won 7 games consecutively in December and had put 7 past Brighton. In terms of performance it might just be our best this season with Forest having no answer to [...]

February 17, 2025 // 0 Comments

Super Bowl 2025

The Super Bowl poses many challenges. To the viewer, he/she must – if he/she wants to see it live – stay awake between the hours of 11.30pm and 3-30am. As it’s mainly an event, rather than a sporting spectacle of competitiveness, the commentary must cater for the casual as well as the [...]

February 11, 2025 // 0 Comments

England 26 France 25 (Six Nations)

England confounded the negativity of the Press in the build-up by not collapsing in the final quarter but by winning in the dying embers. In truth it was not a great game of rugby. France dominated the first half but made some dreadful errors. Marcus Smith’s kicking was not reliable off the [...]

February 9, 2025 // 0 Comments

The Tanner Report: Newcastle 1 Fulham 2

The mystery continues as to why Fulham can get satisfactory results against teams above us and play poorly against those below. We have beaten Nottingham Forest, Chelsea and now Newcastle away – drawn at Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal – but lost crushingly to Wolves and drawn with [...]

February 3, 2025 // 0 Comments

Brighton 0 Everton 1

Brighton’s run of poor home form continued – our last home win was in November. David Moyes, who has 700 managerial games under his belt, did a number over the considerably less experienced Fabian Hürzeler. Surprisingly Minteh was overlooked for Grouda, but the latter was ineffectual [...]

January 28, 2025 // 0 Comments

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